CHEVY/CORVETTE PORTFOLIO: DREAM CARS

Posted on February 1, 2026February 1, 2026 by MartynL

Corvette historian, illustrator, and blogger, Scott Teeters, celebrates GM Motorama showcars and a 1970s oldie but goodie, CHEVY/CORVETTE PORTFOLIO: DREAM CARS. Way back in the olden days, car manufacturers kept the public excited with a steady stream of show cars. They were often called “Dream Cars,” “Fantasy Cars,” “Futuristic Cars,” and “Experimental Cars.” As a result, the public quickly grew used to seeing bold ideas and wild shapes. Car shows of all kinds became a major fad through the...

’53 CORVETTE: BIRTH OF AN ICON

Posted on October 19, 2025October 19, 2025 by MartynL

Chevrolet has been producing Corvettes for more than seven decades, since the ’53 CORVETTE: BIRTH OF AN ICON broke cover at the 1953 GM Motorama. How do you chronicle a legend? How do you put on paper the story of an automobile that is so much more than the automobile itself? That the Corvette has been, is, and always will be something much more than the sum of its parts cannot be questioned. Perhaps a Campbell-Ewald advertising copywriter summed it up best when he wrote for a 1970 Corvette sal...

ZORA ARKUS-DUNTOV: GODFATHER OF THE CORVETTE

Posted on June 25, 2020June 25, 2020 by MartynL

Our friends at MID AMERICA MOTORWORKS pay tribute to ZORA ARKUS-DUNTOV: GODFATHER OF THE CORVETTE, the man responsible for America’s first real sports car. Zora Arkus-Duntov was a brilliant engineer who transformed the Corvette from a stylish sports car into a legendary high-performance machine. Arkus-Duntov was born in 1909 and raised in Saint Petersburg, Russia. After the Russian Revolution, the family immigrated to Berlin, Germany where he earned an engineering degree from Charlottenburg Tec...